Pakistan can't link N.Y. bombing suspect to extremist groups

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Source: McClatchy Newspapers

Pakistan can't link N.Y. bombing suspect to extremist groups
By Saeed Shah, McClatchy Newspapers 2 hrs 30 mins ago

KARACHI, Pakistan — Pakistani investigators have been unable to find evidence linking Faisal Shahzad , the Times Square bombing suspect, with the Pakistani Taliban or other extremist groups, Pakistani security officials said Tuesday. Investigators also have been unable to substantiate Shahzad's reported confession that he received bomb-making training in the country's wild Waziristan region, officials said.

The lack of evidence found by investigators stands in contrast to forceful statements by top Obama administration officials linking Shahzad to extremist Pakistani groups.

The prime Pakistani suspect, Muhammad Rehan , was detained early last week outside a radical mosque in Karachi after Shahzad was arrested in New York . A member of the banned extremist group Jaish-e-Mohammad, Rehan was the only concrete link found so far between the 30-year-old Shahzad and the militant underworld in Pakistan .

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"We have not found any involvement of Rehan (in the New York attempted bombing). He didn't introduce Faisal Shahzad to the Pakistani Taliban," said a security official with knowledge of the investigation, who spoke only on the condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to discuss the issue with journalists. "No Taliban link has come to the fore."

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[maxsolomon]

1. round up the usual suspects!

quite the allies we've got in the pakistani military and ISI...

of course, ACTUAL training by the Taliban would not have resulted in that POS bomb.

[rocktivity]

2. Get real--what self-respecting terrorist group would ALLOW themselves

to be associated with a blatant screwup like Shahzad? What's Pakistani for "Even WE have standards"?

:rofl:
rocktivity

[customerserviceguy]

3. These are the same

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[sam sarrha]

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[Robb]

5. Riiiight. "Nobody in here but us chickens."

I don't think "can't" is quite the right word for the headline. :D